Wednesday • December 11 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.L
Manchester, N.H.
So there is a post up, Democrats Have To Be Careful How They Handle Santos. The premise of the post is that if Democrats go after Santos then somehow …the author never explains how … Democrats will pay a price politically because Biden Warren, Blumenthal, etc. etc. etc. are also liars. NO … that will never happen.
There are different rules for Democrats and Republicans. The legacy media a/k/a the FakeNews, Big-Tech, Mitch McConnell and the faux-Republicans in the Senate virtually ALWAYS give the Democrat a pass. The Republican NEVER gets a pass.
The author of the post wants the GOP House to expel Santos … which does NOTHING but help Democrats. Indeed, it is exactly what the Democrats want. Our liar gets expelled, while their liars remain in office. The author’s advice is akin to advising you to observe the Marquis of Queensbury rules despite your opponent having brought ten of his friends to the fight, all armed with baseball bats.
The Democrats are focused on transforming America into a Socialist brave new world … and we are supposed to weaken the GOP House, the ONLY part of the federal government controlled by the GOP and in a position to fight this transformation? NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.
As Churchill said about Stalin because he believed him a lesser threat than Hitler …. “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.”
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The last few years have been checkered with debate about sexually oriented books found in many elementary, middle, and high school libraries. These books have probably been on the shelves for years. But COVID uncovered a great deal about what our children are exposed to in their classrooms.
The debate has turned to conflict between parents and educators regarding who is responsible for a child’s education. You would think that is a simple question, but not so fast. Educators, including teachers, administrators, school boards, and even the unions, believe it is their job and that parents deserve no input. As you can imagine, this is not settling well with parents.
Some of the topics covered in class, even in elementary schools, are Critical Race Theory, LGBTQ+ issues, and Transgender options. These subjects do not belong in schools, and teachers should not be counseling students on sensitive personal matters, like which gender they should be. The books are also far too graphic for young eyes who cannot grasp the subject matter. This preface brings us to this week’s Spotlight.
This week’s Spotlight is an actor, evangelist, father, husband, author, and filmmaker. He can now add activist to his list of accomplishments. Kirk Cameron is battling with libraries around the country who are not willing to allow Cameron to hold readings of his new book in their buildings. These libraries have no issue with offering LGBTQ and Trans topics for their avid readers but feel a need to protect the public from the evil of a book like “As You Grow.” What a warped sense of right, wrong, or decency.
So far, over fifty libraries have denied requests from Cameron to allow him space and time to read his new book, “As You Grow,” to parents and children. Follow Sky Tree’s journey from a tiny acorn to a mighty tree that provides shade, sustenance, and lodging! “As You Grow” is a fun story with brilliant art that teaches the Biblical truths of the Fruit of the Spirit.’ The problem with this book for the Progressives is it promotes Christianity and living a good and wholesome existence. The Left sees this as dangerous and, may I say it, existential. They find it more palatable to promote drag queens and child mutilation. These topics to them are much more inclusive.
It all backfired when one library bent to pressure and reversed its original decision. The Indianapolis Public Library allowed Cameron to present his work, and he did so to a record-setting capacity audience of over 2,500 parents and children. No event, including the drag queens, ever drew such a crowd. The scene repeated itself in New York, and more libraries are following suit.
The people are speaking up, and institutions are forced to listen up. We may find that this WOKE movement, driven by a loud minority, will have a short life. I believe this LGBTQ lifestyle and the urge to reassign gender are caused by social pressure and are not a product of genes. What we need are more brave people, like Kirk Cameron, to shine a light on traditional values and have strong parental teams to resist social pressure and let their heads and guts lead them
Thank you, Kirk Cameron, for having the tenacity not to accept “no.”
God bless and guide you. People will follow your lead, and one will become a legion.
Editors Note: Our apologies for pushing this out a day late.
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It never seems to end – the Cultural Marxism at play in sexualizing our children (along with other social issues). ALL of it can be traced back to Class Struggle/Warfare – putting one class of people against another. Classic Marxism was based on economics but it failed here in America because, well, the middle class was already pretty well off. So, they took the “general case” (class, struggle) and used other classes. After all, it is ALWAYS easy to make one Class the Oppressor (the capitalists) and another the Oppressed (the workers). Now, change that to Race and the Marxists took off to the races again. Ditto religion: the majority American religion has historically been Christian so make them the Oppressors as well – at the same time. Now, add in sexuality for a third front.
Then aim those tactics and techniques at those most vulnerable to such indoctrination, K-12 kids (and throw in pre-schoolers as well) AND a fourth front – Parents are your Oppressors (while we, your teachers, love you more and are your best buddies and will save you from your Parents). Think I’m kidding? Just stroll through all of the “stack of stuff” aggregates that I’ve put together along with a lot of individual posts as well).
So let’s start off with another one as it just seems that Government is establishing two religions, contra the First Amendment, in order to “save” us and shepherd to their Nirvana. After all, it is clear that Sex is the new Governmental religion Brand A (the Libertine sect with Brand B the Calvinist one of “thou shalt live without energy or food we don’t allow). WHY is the CDC, who couldn’t get it’s main mission right with WuFlu, decided to extend its mission to evangelize Government Religion Brand A? As always, some reformatting and most emphasis is mine:
As its name suggests, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tasked with preventing the spread of diseases. One CDC division is, however, working to help facilitate the spread of LGBT activists’ radical social agenda in schools. The CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health purportedly “promotes environments where youth can gain fundamental health knowledge and skills, establish healthy behaviors, and connect to health services to prevent HIV, STDs, and unintended pregnancy.”
So much for Parental Authority in this. Oh Wait – isn’t that the mission of many school systems – to become the permanent ersatz parents instead of the parents in teaching sexual morality and such?
The division also apparently endeavors to help schools stay engaged in LGBT activism and up to date with social constructivist terminology. DASH has repeatedly pushed an October 2020 document entitled, “LGBTQ Inclusivity in Schools: A Self-Assessment Tool,” on teachers and school administrators alike. Most recently, DASH tweeted on Dec. 27, “School administrators: Our LGBTQ inclusivity self-assessment tool can help you quickly gauge inclusivity at your school. See your score today and learn ways to increase inclusivity,” with a link to the document.
The purpose of the self-assessment is to approximate how close to conformity a teacher, classroom, or school is with the LGBT dogmas of the day.
Is this a Proper Role of Government? I think know not. What I DO know is that when local Parents get involved because of the above being foisted up their children, they can make a difference. And if you ever thought that ONE person can make a difference, here’s a story that outlines that getting behind and getting ONE more person elected matters. Day one by one vote:
Located to the southeast of Los Angeles, the Temecula Valley School District previously followed other woke educational groups and began teaching critical race theory. That was apparently a bridge too far for the parents in the district. Working with the Inland Empire Family PAC, three new board members were recently elected after running on a “pro-parental rights” platform. Those new members were sworn in this week, building a 3-2 majority on the board. Immediately upon being seated, the new majority voted to ban CRT from being taught in the district. The sweeping measure blasted CRT as being a true example of racism and rejected all of its basic tenets. This is a hopeful sign in a season of madness and woke ideologies. (Daily Wire)
A California school district voted this week to ban Critical Race Theory from being taught in its schools.
In a 3-2 vote, the Temecula Valley Unified School District in southern California voted to ban schools from teaching CRT. The vote came at the end of a marathon session on Tuesday night that ran into the wee hours of Wednesday morning; a new conservative majority had just been sworn in at the beginning of the meeting.
“The TVUSD desires to uplift and unite students by not imposing the responsibility of historical transgressions in the past and instead will engage students of all cultures in age-appropriate critical thinking that helps students navigate the past, present, and future,” the resolution banning CRT stated.
The resolution declares that CRT is based on an “artificial distortion of the traditional definition of ‘racism.’” It points out that CRT is racist in and of itself, targeting white students based on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. The school rejects the idea that one subset of students who are still children should be made to feel shame or bear responsibility for the actions of people from previous generations that took place long before they were born.
And another Good Story but at the College Level – Free Speech upheld. The problem that we ALL should recognize is that a specific policy had to be issued instead of being the assumed default by EVERY one. However, we’re living in Robert Heinlein’s Crazy Years, we have to tell and smack around the skulls full of mush that their Chinese Maoistic reeducation perp walks are over:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty have adopted a resolution that defends freedom of speech and expression — even speech some find “offensive or injurious.” The “Free Expression Statement,” approved by the faculty senate Dec. 21, states that “Learning from a diversity of viewpoints, and from the deliberation, debate, and dissent that accompany them, are essential ingredients of academic excellence.”
The statement was approved by a vote of 98 to 52, a source close to MIT told The College Fix.
“We cannot prohibit speech that some experience as offensive or injurious,” the statement reads.
But as Glenn Reynolds noted: “It wasn’t close, but it should have been less-close.” What the is wrong with those 52?? The Left is always talking about “Dangers to our Democracy”. Excluding the fact that we aren’t a democracy, it is these Leftard Faculty Lounge Lizards that are the biggest threat by inculcating such nonsense about our fundamental values and Law?
And let’s bounce back to CRT (it HAS been quite some time since Critical Race Theory has been discussed directly but remember, Transgenderism is just one facet of it). Key word here is “equity“. Just substitute in the word “quota” and you’ve got the nub of this next snippet:
It’s almost funny how when it comes to the American education system, leftist indoctrination and pandering has paved the way for “equity” to be a good trait or quality.
While this meme doesn’t apply to *every* equity drive, it’s spot on in this case. https://t.co/vfJGzSBfxc pic.twitter.com/iPXjwIX2nI
— Liv Boeree (@Liv_Boeree) May 4, 2021
The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, has come under intense scrutiny and fire after it was revealed that the school had intentionally delayed notifying students of national academic honors in the name of “equity.”
…“This year the entire controversy just blew up because the kids got their certificate, weeks after early college application deadlines, just dropped on their desks as if it was just another piece of paper,” Nomani said.
So to briefly recap: In the name of “equity” (ensuring that every child is equally kneecapped), Thomas Jefferson High School decided that if one child can’t boost his/her college application chances with an academic award, then no students should be able to.
…“The school wanted to recognize students as individuals, not their achievements, as if the two had to be separated,” she said. What, pray tell, is up with the demonizing of individual accomplishment as a bad thing?
After all, all the smarter/hard working students are OPPRESSING those that aren’t as equal in academic horsepower and/or work ethic. “War on Merit“.
And a “War on Normalty” – start with preschoolers and teach them to cross-dress with a purpose!
A school district that gave preschoolers a book on cross-dressing has changed its procedures for giving out books after news of the incident surfaced late last month. As first reported exclusively by The Lion and The Heartlander news sites, a 4-year-old preschooler in the Turner School District in Kansas City, Kansas, took home the book “Jacob’s New Dress.” It’s a picture book in which a little boy wears girls’ clothes and even competes with his friend Emily to be a princess.
“I don’t think this should be, obviously, any kind of a subject for a school to be speaking about,” Jim Clay, the 4-year-old’s grandfather, told The Lion. “The sexualization of our children in society today is just disgusting. The grooming that’s taking place is disgusting.”
Clay reported the Turner district had explained what happened and what changes will be made to prevent such a sexually provocative book from being tendered to young children there again.
…“Moving forward, our district staff will be preapproving all books and activities provided by Literacy KC to ensure they are age-appropriate and align with our district curriculum and educational mission,” the statement concluded—notably, without apology to offended parents and guardians.
Case closed? Maybe, maybe not.
“This past spring we learned State Farm was distributing transgender books in Florida,” says Mary Miller, an Oregon-based parents’ rights advocate who spoke about the cultural divide between parents and schools in Kansas City at a community forum in June.
…There is a coordinated effort by trans rights activist groups such as GLSEN (formerly the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network) and the Human Rights Campaign to push transgender ideology on schoolchildren nationwide.
They ARE coming for our kids. And it isn’t just at schools. Thank you, Mattel!
Mattel, the massive corporation that owns Barbie, Fisher-Price, Hot Wheels, American Girl, and several other iconic toy companies, is promoting transgender ideology to children through its products. The brand has introduced several transgender-themed products aimed at a child audience in recent years, including a recent book about boy image that included a section encouraging gender transitions for girls with body image issues. Mattel has been praised by LGBT activists and boasted of its LGBT inclusion efforts.
“Our most recent example is UNO’s new Play with Pride deck, which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community and includes a donation to the It Gets Better Project in honor of Pride Month. And there are many more.” Mattel came under fire most recently for an American Girl book aimed at young girls that promoted gender transitions without parental consent and encouraged girls to stifle any discomfort they felt about males using women’s restrooms.
Caution! NSFW and we’re breaking the ‘Grok’s Rule #1 but since the Left has brought the war here, here we must expose it AND we must do so at School Board meetings:
A concerned mother brought a school book to her school board to address the sexual harassment and vulgar language that is being pushed on her children.
This specific book references 10-year old fourth-graders engaging in homosexual actions and using language like “his little salamander between my fourth-grade fingers rapidly engorging with blood”.This is my son, Cameron. He attends Leander High School and I’m going to explain to you the book that he received but Mr. McKay, I pray you are a man of your word. Last week I asked my children if I could check the books that they’ve picked up from the school. My son picked up this brand new book from the shelves in class, “Lawn Boy”. He was under the impression it was about a kid that ends up with a gig mowing the grass at Disneyland. I’d like to share a few quotes with you.
On page 19, “Not that it really matters, in fourth grade at a church youth group meeting out in the bushes, I touched Doug Goebbels d*ck, and he touched mine. In fact, there was even some mouths involved.” Next one, page 91, “What if I told you I touched another guy’s d*ck? What if I told you I sucked it? I was 10 years old, but it’s true. I put Doug Goebbels’ d*ck in my mouth. I was in fourth grade, it was no big deal. He sucked mine too. And you know what, it wasn’t terrible.” Page 174, “he talked about all times at the church but never mentioned our penises, or the fact that he never said 10 words to me after our little foray in the bushes. Not a single reference to holding or tugging or sucking d*cks. All I could think about while he was chatting me up, was his little salamander between my fourth-grade fingers, rapidly engorging with blood.” Page 230, “Why won’t you admit we suck each other’s dicks? We shared a HERSHEY’s Bar, then you showed me your dick. The next thing I know it’s in my mouth. We suck each other’s dicks and you’re pretending it didn’t happen.”
What sort of diversity are you intending to teach my child with material like this? In addition, I’ll share with you the exceptional quality of vocabulary, I stopped counting on page 66 After 44 f*cks, and 41 sh*ts. The depravity of the content on the shelves in our schools cannot be mitigated with policy.
Bonus: WHY is “Lawn Boy” pedophilic.
And let’s get to the nub of the problem – those that believe that Parents just AREN’T relevant but should be MADE to be irrelevant:
In internet lingo, to “say the quiet part out loud” means to reveal one’s true intentions or motives that were supposed to remain publicly unsaid. Recently, a couple of prominent organizations that deal with children have “said the quiet part out loud” when talking about parental rights.
The first was the National Education Association, which has a long history of advocating extreme, sexually progressive ideology in schools, such as, for instance, advising teachers to hide transgender students’ name and pronoun changes from parents. In November, the NEA tweeted:
“Educators love their students and know better than anyone what they need to learn and thrive.”
Hmm. Could they be overlooking anyone? Such as, I don’t know, students’ parents? It’s as if any right that parents have to be involved and aware of their children’s education ends at the ability of progressive teachers to shepherd their students into alternative lifestyles, sexual practices, and abortions.
Speaking of abortion, another group that deals with vulnerable children and teens also recently said the quiet part out loud. Parental rights advocate Megan Brock tweeted a clip from a video conference by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Policy Lab. In it, Dr. Sarah Wood explained the group’s strategy for circumventing Pennsylvania’s parental notification law for minors seeking abortions.
According to Dr. Wood, “the ideal state” would be to repeal parental notification laws so that doctors can refer teens for abortions privately. Until then, she proposed, there should be a “designated navigator process” to help shepherd pregnant teens through a judicial bypass, so parents never have to know. According to Wood, this can prevent “physical, emotional, and financial harm” young women might otherwise suffer at the hands of their families. Ultimately, she explained, the goal of policymakers and physicians should be “expanding this idea of a parent, to being a trusted or supportive adult, so that it’s not a tie of biology…”
I keep seeing/hearing this all the time: “if we just didn’t have to deal with Parents…THEY are the criminals in all this and certainly DON’T love their kids”. Shades of NH Dem Party Chair Ray Buckley exclaiming “…some kids will be kicked out or beaten (to death) or commit suicide.” when talking about Parents and their transgender children.
According to our Public Servants, Parents are just plain evil. Just like students that may not understand what Free Speech really is and acts ignorantly because of it:
The vice president of the University of Illinois Student Government, or ISG, has tendered her resignation because the school will not “take a stand and prohibit hate speech.”
Vindhya Kalipi, a junior studying political science and statistics, made that point in a student government Instagram post put up on October 10. Kalipi was not pleased about the appearance of Matt Walsh on his “What is a Woman?” tour at which he said challenging transgender ideology is “the hill he is ‘willing to die on’” and that gender transitioning is “castrating” children. In its statement, the ISG said Walsh’s remarks were “hateful,” “wrong” and “induce[d] pain for many people.”
It also noted that given her beliefs, Kalipi (pictured) “talked to administrators and looked through existing laws and regulations” to ultimately discover there is no First Amendment exception for “hate speech.”
Right. An American political science major not understanding the US Constitution and its Bill of Rights? That Free Speech is all but absolute when it comes to expressing opinion even if you consider it “offensive” and hateful? ESPECIALLY, those two categories are protected? So who indoctrinated her into thinking this way.
Oh wait? One of these?
Democrats Aren’t Fooling Anyone With Their Lies About Indoctrinating Children
Progressives who support the grooming and indoctrination taking place in America’s schools are often fond of trying to gaslight the nation into believing it isn’t happening. They pretend far-leftist ideas on race, sexuality, and gender identity are not being presented to small children. No matter how many news reports surface showing that school districts are pushing ideas inspired by critical race theory and helping children transition to the opposite gender without their parent’s knowledge or consent, they continue to assure that there is nothing to see here. But a recent poll shows that Americans are not falling for their lies.
A brand new Washington Examiner/YouGov survey revealed that most adults know that public K-12 schools are infusing so-called progressive ideas into their curricula and are not happy about it. From the report:
Fifty-eight percent of respondents, including 51% of Democrats, agreed schools are teaching students what to believe regarding race. And 50%, including 40% of Democrats and 49% of independents, agreed schools are teaching students to adopt certain views on sexuality and gender.
Even further, the report notes that “an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults believe schools should not be forcing these views onto children in any way.” According to the study, 68 percent of participants said schools should teach that America has a complicated history with “good and bad aspects” instead of the radical “America sucks” curriculum with which progressives seek to indoctrinate students. Additionally, most respondents said they opposed teachings about gender identity and sexual orientation until high school.
And by any means possible, so it seems:
Metro Atlanta School District Sneakily Includes Gender Propaganda on School-Issued Devices
Even as parents have begun to make strides in exposing and reversing the trend of radical gender theory education in schools, educators are finding ways to sneak in the propaganda in ways that parents can’t easily discover. The latest example of that is taking place just outside of Atlanta in Gwinnett County. This is the largest school district in Georgia and the same one that brought us the infamous school board president Dr. Tarece Williams, who posts bizarre TikTok videos and promotes divisive racial ideology. Gwinnett Schools are now adding gender propaganda to the mix with what one group calls “inappropriate gender lessons” on school-issued Chromebooks that parents can’t access when logging into their children’s accounts on other devices.
Holly Terei, the Gwinnett County chapter president of No Left Turn in Education, discovered the objectionable content on the Chromebook that the school issued to her child.
“One ebook on the fourth grade page claims that gender is a social construct ‘not based on anything biological or medical,’” explains the press release from No Left Turn in Education. “It dismisses the differences between men and women as figments of societal imagination.”
…“Gwinnett County Schools are pushing gender lessons on kids and hiding it from their parents,” Terei said in No Left Turn’s statement. “This is a brazen attempt to supplant the role of parents in their children’s lives. Nothing in the content is educational. It does not serve students; it serves the political goals of bureaucrats.”
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They’re flying so thick and fast it is amazing. And take heart – there will be a Meme Overflow and likely a Friday Meme Overflow-Overflow. Last week’s Overflow-Overflow.
Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:
Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.
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But first, a random sampling of three of my cartoons. Please note these are my concepts but I pay a professional to do them.
Isn’t this first one the entirety of the political debate?
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We need to show more steel.
The Riddle of Steel – Liberty Version – Granite Grok
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I have the feeling the above is proving prescient. As will the below…
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Let’s not forget what abortion really is:
A few pro-life memes:
On the second one: a former co-worker, in a “group exercise”, said that he would give the money to Planned Parenthood when asked what he’d do if given a million dollars to allocate to charity. If it weren’t for the sake of a tenuous employment situation, I’d have asked him what he had against black children.
And in light of this article:
The Jewish Position On Abortion Isn’t What You Think It Is – Public Discourse (thepublicdiscourse.com)
See this:
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I believe this is one of the reasons why so many sheeple simply refuse to see the evidence before their eyes, whether on the Jab or anything else we “awake” people see. Because it would irrevocably shatter their belief in their fellow humans and what they believe to be an overall basic goodness of humanity. That’s a bridge too far for most.
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People like this I can deal with. As long as they have a sense of humility underneath it, they can accept the possibility they might be wrong. I can have a conversation with them. It is those who are also insufferably full of themselves as morally superior because they believe what they believe that I cannot tolerate. Because it’s futile talking with them.
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I’ve promoted My Tree in Israel – a friend’s business – multiple times, mostly through sharing recipes they’ve sent me. Here is their recent appearance on Mike Huckabee’s show:
You can adopt (annual fee) an olive tree and get six bottles of olive oil with a personalized label. They also do the same with a grape vine, yielding six bottles of wine. Full disclosure: Yishai is a friend of mine, but I receive no payment for promoting them. It’s simply fantastic olive oil – I hope the wine will be as good – and it supports agriculture in my spiritual homeland…
I currently have three trees, and one vine. One tree is in the name of my business, and I use it as “give aways” for marketing purposes. And they have a new recipe:
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https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/yeadon-on-fraud.mp4
And watch this about strokes specifically:
https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/wolfe-on-strokes-1.mp4
Did you catch something? Almost all in the UK. Why? Were they varying chemistries in a Design of Experiments in different nations to see what happens with different formulations?
Look, I can understand why the Globalists want depopulation (i.e., know your enemy). How does the “average Jane and Joe” pharma employee go along with this?
My three essays on depopulation:
The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok
Borrowing from a Dog Food Ad – Urban Scoop
More:
New Year Starts with Intensifying Calls to Pull COVID-19 Vaccines from Public Use (substack.com)
Did Pfizer Perform Safety Testing for its Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine in Preclinical Studies? (substack.com)
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OR… for the person you hit and killed, why their owner never came home.
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Pick of the post:
The depopulation agenda is in our schools.
And a close second, worthy of mention:
Important point. It’s not just about the new voters. It’s about the House and solidifying control. Never, ever forget these people are MISSIONARIES. They’ll lie to advance their plans. Their planned Communism is their FAITH and we are in a religious war.
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Palate Cleansers:
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Yesterday I mentioned Vermont and its habit of making New Hampshire more desirable but let’s not forget Massachusetts, a leader in advancing the New Hampshire Advantage. Effective January first, it is enforcing a new tax on millionaires that could benefit the Granite State.
Related: Vermont Helps New Hampshire Widen Its Advantage
“Question 1 is set to raise taxes starting this Sunday, and for many small business owners, retirees, home (sellers), and high-income earners, they will be shocked to see their taxes go up by 80 percent,” Paul Diego Craney, a spokesperson for Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, said in an emailed statement.
January 1 wasn’t just the first day of the year, it was also the start of the 2023 tax season, during which any dollar made over $1 million will be taxed an extra 4% above the state’s flat 5% income tax rate.
Advocates promoted it as an equalizer, and since this is Massachusetts, no one ever considered lowering everyone else’s taxes to create the advertised perception. Make them pay more by taking less from you. Put that question before the people, and I bet it passes too. It will never happen in a tax and spend haven like The Bay State. The problem is finding revenue to meet their uncontrollable addiction to spending.
You sell it as a wealth tax and then sweep up retirees hoping to sell their homes to prop up their retirement. Small business owners get pinched, which suppresses their ability to create jobs (to which we can include the added weight of the MA J1 hike in the mandatory minimum wage). The obscenely rich, like the Kennedys and Kerrys, will effortlessly loophole and tax code their way around this the way Trump has if you’ve seen his taxes.
They wrote the tax code like every other law. If you can afford enough lawyers or experts to help you navigate, it has little or no effect on those with true wealth. Those who will be affected can look north to New Hampshire.
Sure, we have that interest and dividends tax, which is also a weight on retirees, and we’re not “tax-free,” but we’re a lot more tax-friendly. The total tax burden is consistently lower nationwide than most states and all of the New England states, despite my Massachusetts relatives pretending that can’t be true. The net result is a gross incentive to move your assets into the Granite State.
As with the Vermonter who leaps the Connecticut river for greener pastures, you must leave your voting history behind if you come across the Merrimack. Our Democrats are like yours. At least a few of them were yours. But they didn’t come here to escape tax and regulatory tyranny. They came to infect us with it and milk the Granite State dry just like Dems have in Massachusetts and Vermont (and increasingly, Maine).
Places where equalizing a tax burden or creating an incentive will never mean lowering or eliminating taxes—quite the opposite.
Because they don’t care about equality, they only care about spending other people’s money, and there is never enough of that.
HT | Boston Herald
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The beginning of a New Year is like Christmas Day for Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and the Progressives, who must have been giddy with anticipation. January 1, is the signing day of head-shaking bills in California.
If “as goes California, so goes the country” is correct. God save us all.
Newsom signed five WOKE new laws into effect. The signing ceremony is a New Year’s Day tradition in California, where common sense and sound governing have retired long ago. California is the land of homeless encampments, proposed reparations for black descendants of slaves, sanctuary cities, and no cash bail. California has become a dangerous and expensive state leading to an exodus of people and businesses. That is not a concern of Progressives. Let’s take a look at the five new bills of 2023.
The first was passed in September but takes effect today. SB107 makes California a sanctuary state for transgender kids. It will protect the use of drugs or surgery to provide “gender-affirming care” to kids who travel to California from states that have restricted allowing minors to receive the life-alternating surgery.
Sen. Scott Weiner (D-Calif) said that the bill offers “refuge” to trans minors and their families “if they’re being criminalized in their home states.”
We know from the midterms how important abortion rights are to Democrats. SB 1375 will allow nurses to perform abortions without the help of a medical licensed doctor, which was passed alongside a referendum guaranteeing the right to abortion and contraception.
Under the new law, nurses will be able to perform the procedure without a doctor supervising in the first trimester of pregnancy.
The third law that goes into effect on the first, is a Covid misinformation law. Signed in September, the law will require medical licensing boards in the state of California to take disciplinary action against doctors who are involved with the “dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or ‘COVID-19’. It is apparently up to the state to determine fact or fiction.
Additionally, Newsom signed a law that decriminalizes jaywalking because of “racism.” Titled “Freedom to Walk Act,” the law will prevent law enforcement from stopping people who are crossing the street not at a crosswalk unless they are in visible danger. The law claims that jaywalking is a racist crime because it is enforced unfairly in “communities of color” where people apparently cannot afford to pay the fines.
The fifth law, which is currently on hold by the courts, is state control of fast-food restaurants. The law would create a ten-member politburo, aka the Fast Food Council, which would serve for ten years,” allowing them to set wages and working conditions for the fast food industry. After a group of restaurants collected petition signatures against the law sued, the law was put on hold.
None of these laws serve the needs of the majority of California residents. They cater to special interest groups or strengthen government power over people. These actions by Gavin Newsom have to be broadcast loud and clear. Newsom is considered one of the front-runners for 2024 should Biden not run. Whether as Mayor of San Francisco or Governor of California, he has proven himself to be a highly Progressive politician and would be a detriment to the country if he gets near the Oval Office. We have to ensure he gets nowhere near D.C.
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The Armenian Genocide was not a mistake.
Holodomor was not a mistake.
The Final Solution was not a mistake.
The Great Leap Forward was not a mistake.
The Killing Fields were not a mistake.
Name your genocide—it was not a mistake.
That includes the Great Democide of the 2020s.
To imply otherwise is to give Them the out they are seeking.
It was not botched.
It was not bungled.
It was not a blunder.
It was not incompetence.
It was not lack of knowledge.
It was not spontaneous mass hysteria.
The planning occurred in plain sight.
The planning is still occurring in plain sight.
The philanthropaths bought The $cience.
The modelers projected the lies.
The testers concocted the crisis.
The NGOs leased the academics.
The $cientists fabricated the findings.
The mouthpieces spewed the talking points.
The organizations declared the emergency.
The governments erected the walls.
The departments rewrote the rules.
The governors quashed the rights.
The politicians passed the laws.
The bankers installed the control grid.
The stooges laundered the money.
The DoD placed the orders.
The corporations fulfilled the contracts.
The regulators approved the solution.
The laws shielded the contractors.
The agencies ignored the signals.
The behemoths consolidated the media.
The psychologists crafted the messaging.
The propagandists chanted the slogans.
The fact-chokers smeared the dissidents.
The censors silenced the questioners.
The jackboots stomped the dissenters.
The tyrants summoned.
The puppeteers jerked.
The puppets danced.
The colluders implemented.
The doctors ordered.
The hospitals administered.
The menticiders scripted.
The bamboozled bleated.
The totalitarianized bullied.
The Covidians tattled.
The parents surrendered.
The good citizens believed … and forgot.
This was calculated.
This was formulated.
This was focus-grouped.
This was articulated.
This was manufactured.
This was falsified.
This was coerced.
This was inflicted.
This was denied.
We were terrorized.
We were isolated.
We were gaslit.
We were dehumanized.
We were wounded.
We were killed.
Don’t let them get away with it.
Don’t let them get away with it.
Don’t let them get away with it.
HT | Margaret Anna Alice – Shared upon Request
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Unlike NH-NeverTrumpJournal, I don’t “spin,” which is a lovely euphemism for LIE. The biggest political loser of 2022 was … Donald J. Trump. Here’s why.
The FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago is the 2022 equivalent of the Russia-hoax, and just as the Russia-hoax was a black-cloud over the Trump Presidency, the Mar-a-Lago-hoax will be a black-cloud over Trump’s campaign for the Presidency. And just as the Russia-hoax would not have been possible … or at a minimum effective … without the complicity of Mitch McConnell and the faux-Republicans in the U.S. Senate, so too Mar-a-Lago needs and has received the same complicity. For example, faux-conservative Tim Scott told FakeNews CBS, “[w]e need to let this play out and see exactly what happens … ”
Additionally, Mitch and his faux-Republican allies beat Trump in the midterms. They wanted the Trump-backed candidates to lose … even at the price of remaining in the Senate minority … and they succeeded. As General Patton said, “America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser:
Can Trump rebound from a really bad 2022 in 2023? Of course. But unlike the paid-to-be-Trump-deranged, warmonger, what’s-good-for-Big-Pharma-is-good-for-America Mikey Graham I am not going to try to mislead you … Trump had a really bad 2022. So bad that he was 2022’s biggest political loser.
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Honorable Senator Cruz,
I am writing to you, the distinguished member of the United States Senate and my Senator to plead with you to stand with the valiant Iranian women, men, and children in their quest for freedom and equality.
Senator Cruz, as you know well, it has been more than four decades that President after President attempted to negotiate with the conniving Mullahs hoping that they would abandon their nuclear ambitions. Even former President Obama offered them a handsome olive branch. Well, to be clear, the Islamic Republic of Iran never stopped its ambition to develop the means to advance a nuclear delivery system. Simply reinstating the JCPOA, as President Biden wants, would allow Iran to legitimately expand its nuclear program and procure advanced weapons.
On top of that, reports that the Islamic Republic state has sentenced approximately 15,000 people to death for participating in the now three months of protests in the country have circulated widely on social media and in the news.
The Iranian regime has shown:
In short, thank you for hearing and supporting the freedom-loving voices of Iranians who despise the rule of unelected clerics and wish to end their reign of terror and mischief.
Your courageous support is invaluable for and in the best interests of the United States.
Once again, Senator Cruz, please accept my profound thanks and gratitude, representing the voices of a great many Iranians and Iranian-Americans for your much-needed stand with the earnest plea that you maintain your visionary goal.
Sincerely,
Amil Imani
Professor of Homeland Security
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This was a close call. Let’s start with the runner-up … poor, poor, pitiful Chuck Morse. For a while, it looked like the political stars were going to align perfectly for Chuck.
Sun-King Sununu would run for the U.S. Senate and Chuck would step up and run for Governor, an office Chuck was far, far more suited for than the U.S. Senate.
But, alas, it was not to be. Sun-King decided it was too much work to fundraise and realized he was far too thin-skinned to take the hits … i.e., all those “abortion-ban” ads worked … and took the coward’s way out and instead ran for a fourth term as Governor.
But poor, poor, pitiful Chuck’s problems were just starting. Chuck … or more precisely, Chuck’s crack consultants … ran a campaign straight out of the 1980s. Hey … let’s have Chuck drive a snowplow and mumble platitudes about low taxes and limited government … it worked for George Bush in 1988! And for months while Bolduc maintained a commanding lead in the polls, Sun-King Sununu just sat on the sidelines, not campaigning for Chuck, not even endorsing Chuck. By the time Sun-King finally endorsed poor, poor, pitiful Chuck it was far too late to make a difference.
And so now Chuck’s political career is over. There is no way … NO WAY … he beats Chris Pappas in the 2024 gubernatorial election. So let’s wish poor, poor, pitiful Chuck happy-lobbying and move on to the winner of biggest local-loser.
2024 was the most favorable political macro-environment for the GOP since 2010, when they won an astonishing 298 seats. Yet the House GOP managed to lose … to LOSE … seats:
Indeed, they nearly succeeded in losing control of the House. Actually, given the number of RINOS the Democrats probably do have functional control of the House.
There can be no question, therefore, that the biggest political loser of 2022 is Jason Osborne, the Majority Leader. The man did the seemingly impossible. He led the House GOP to defeat in a year that political defeat for the GOP in a supposedly “purple” State seemed impossible.
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First, let’s take a moment to look across the aisle, shall we? Heather Raymond was a social worker, and it was on her watch that a kid in the system, Brielle Gage, died (Concord Monitor 4/16/17). She got Children and Family Law. Awkward!
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Maybe being a subordinate of the insufferable chairman Rep Pearson is karma.
Luz Bay, as you can see in luzbay dot run, is a social justice warrior and got Election Law. What member of that committee could be more dangerous than one whom Melanie Levesque praises on social media? In case anyone reading this is new to NH or has forgotten, Melanie is now known statewide for taking her SJW agenda to Concord in more ways than one, most recently in her attempt to usurp future elections as the SoS.
There are four Nashua reps on Public Works. Diversity, anyone? Nashua is the 2nd largest city in NH and has perhaps the biggest spending problem. This is a city that failed to elect the amazingly qualified Laurie Ortolano to the local office of the same name in favor of the social media tyrant Paul Shea, locally known for his “Great American Downtown.” Talk about spreading the Nashua cancer to Concord and beyond!
There are three Nashua reps on Resources, Recreation, and Development. Once again, I mention the buzzword “diversity,” but it’s one less Rep than Public Works and likely a committee with less potential to do as much damage.
And now, onto our side, or is it really?
Kelley Potenza, no stranger in the state house, requested HHS and/or Election Law and got Environment and Agriculture. I am convinced this happened due to one or more of the following: The decision was made to spite her and perhaps the rest of NH. She was put where the speaker thought she could be silenced the most. The Damn Emperor told the speaker where to put her.
No Rep actively involved in the Voter Integrity Project was selected for Election Law despite six requesting it. Why is that? Aren’t committee members, especially freshmen, supposed to be selected for what’s in their wheelhouses? If Sandra Panek et al. were placed elsewhere because they were branded as potential troublemakers, I’d refer you back to what I said about freshman Luz Bay. Doesn’t the speaker want clean elections? Evidence to the contrary is on full display.
One of the requestors of Election Law was assigned to Legislative Administration. While I can’t prove anything from the following observation, I will point out to the readers that while I was in the state house cafeteria on Organization Day, the chair of Legislative Administration approached me and asked if I was that particular rep to which I said no and asked why he asked. He said he was looking for her, and there was some speculation that she was assigned by the establishment swamp to “keep an eye on her.” Badge of honor, in my opinion. Also noteworthy is that Osborne sits on that committee in a non-leadership position. Osborne is no friend of The Resolve Initiative.
While anything I just said would not (by itself) be admissible in a court of law, I find it a rather unusual combination of happenings.
I emailed several Resolve-endorsed reps, some freshmen and some not, and did not allow ample time for all of them to reply on this holiday weekend. However, I wanted to share my observations while the House committee assignments are still a current event and before the next House session.
I will consider if future responses from those I emailed warrant a sequel to this article. For now, have an excellent time, however you choose to spend it, and keep paying attention.
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People claiming to be adults and not groomers are defending the use of adult-oriented material (porn) directed and kids in public schools, public libraries, and perhaps even classrooms. If you suggest they are not age-appropriate, they label you a book banner. First, F!!! You. Second?
Perhaps we should make age as tempestuous and temperamental as gender—a reflection of a mood or personality rather than defined by some number of days. You are only as old as you feel, they like to say, which brings us back to the list.
It has been understood for millennia that some things are not age-appropriate and that limiting access on these terms is reasonable and necessary. It is a very (VERY!) long list of things, but no one accuses anyone of banning them. Is it because the items are still available to everyone else? And if that’s the standard, limiting access to sexualized material is not a ban.
But if you’d like to keep calling it that, we’d be happy to make you look like the ass you are.
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The next time you bump into a green-energy, electric vehicle futurist who seems a bit too committed to the Net-Zero lie, take a deep breath and then ask them this. So, you’re okay with the human trafficking and slavery required to make that possible?
And that may not be the best way to open the topic. Maybe more of an “I love the idea, and technology is great, but I have some concerns.”
What sort?
If emotion is a better needle-mover than data (there isn’t enough of the stuff we need to get here from there) or facts (we’re offshoring emissions, not eliminating them), how about this?
Joe Rogan is talking to Siddharth Kara, “an American author, activist, and expert on modern-day slavery and human trafficking, child labor, and related human rights issues.” This brief segment introduces us to an inconvenient truth many knew or suspected and gives it a face.
Rare earth metals like cobalt are essential. They are in every modern battery-powered device, from rechargeable lights to smartphones, EVs, and green energy backup storage. The climate cult’s utopia is impossible without it, and most of the cobalt is in The Congo, where it is minded by hand—forced hard labor in Chinese-owned mines for maybe a dollar or two a day, according to Siddharth Kara.
The stuff is toxic to humans, and the workers wear no gloves or masks.
And while it is not just cobalt, the more significant problem is increased demand as governments force their transportation and energy transition plans forward. Priorities that will lead to more of this.
HT | WUWT
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Overall, the items in the basket of goods under the Consumer Price Index have increased by a collective 7.1% since last year, making purchasing necessary food and energy items more difficult:
(H/T: Visual Capitalist)
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First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations. I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource. Read or skip sections depending on your interests.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
And the last edition:
Survival Sunday – Thursday SITREP Edition – Granite Grok
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The Left is very, very good at symbols and other emotion-based propaganda.
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Top of the fold:
The Case for Safety in the Synagogue | City Journal (city-journal.org)
Jews must learn how to shoot, and carry. Then again, everyone should. Specific to us Jews, I am vastly disappointed that my fellow Yids are so anti-gun. But here’s an explanation I find does ring true:
The Shtetl Mentality (jpfo.org)
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Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
Mother Earth News
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
SHTF Blog – Modern Survival
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Gray Wolf survival
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World
Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice
Em Off-grid – We & Our Off The Grid Life – Em OffGrid
Resource for Practical, Daily Prepping Skills for SHTF & Survival (geekprepper.com) (new)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
The 50 Best Survival Blogs
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
25 Survival Items You Should Get From The Dollar Store (askaprepper.com)
Just remember, there are limits to how much you can prep and store. But do what you can! And as an aside, I’m happy to see I am already working on 24 out of 25. On to superglue!
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How To Cook Steak On A Stone In The Wilderness – Ask a Prepper
When you have no pan…
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How to Use Potassium Iodide After a Nuclear Emergency – (theorganicprepper.com)
If you can’t find KI pills, kelp pills are IMHO a good second choice. Of course, the best route is to incorporate iodine supplementation into your diet on an ongoing basis so that your thyroid already has a lot of it. I give my kids about 300 % of the RNA daily. Not overly heavy – see Japan’s intake – but enough to be reasonably sure that in case of an “event” their thyroids are full up. Radioactive iodine has a half-life of about eight days, so to get back down to below 10% is about a month of extra supplementation.
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10 Things You Should Never Do When The Power Goes Out (askaprepper.com)
All good ideas. From the same site:
7 Mistakes To Avoid When Harvesting Rain Water – Ask a Prepper
How To Prepare Your Car For SHTF – Ask a Prepper
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Related to Spicy Time:
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Stick a Fork in It
The country is done. The first article details the corruption and election fraud has eliminated any hope at the ballot box. Our economy has collapsed. Our people have lost the will to work. The people who still are working are vilified and taxed to death. Whoever was vaccinated and boostered is living on borrowed time. Our national security is gone in order to destroy our culture. The rant could continue but the point is still the same: the Deep State killed our country. And we allowed them.
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Heavy Gunfire Heard Across Snowed-In US City as Looting Erupts (thefederalistpapers.org)
Harbinger of what will happen when the EBT cards stop working and the food & water run out for reals.
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I learned that if your head, hands, and feet are – at least – not cold, your core will be fine. And that’s what’s critical.
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Short of years and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. I’ve figured out how to add people who request, so please hop on in and contribute!
Foraging: One-up articles
50+ Dandelion Recipes: Drinks, Sweets, Soap, Remedies + More! (growforagecookferment.com)
Site also has a foraging section, which I’ll add below/ But from the site:
12 Edible and Medicinal Weeds to Forage in Your Backyard (growforagecookferment.com)
Foraging Chanterelle Mushrooms: Identification & Look-alikes (growforagecookferment.com)
Foraging Morel Mushrooms: Identification & Look-alikes (growforagecookferment.com)
5 Easy to Identify Edible Mushrooms (growforagecookferment.com)
What to Forage in Spring: 20 Edible and Medicinal Plants and Fungi (growforagecookferment.com)
What to Forage in Fall: 30+ Edible and Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms (growforagecookferment.com)
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Foraging (permanent feature):
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.com)
Southern Appalachian Herbs
Forage – Grow Forage Cook Ferment
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Shortages (broadly):
Here’s a great thread on why progressives want you to eat bugs and own nothing – twitchy.com
For several years now I’ve seen articles praising the “tiny home” concept.
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Farmer predicts more food shortages, higher prices in 2023: ‘Wake up and support local’ | Fox News
And:
Potential Food Shortages in US? Here’s What May Be Scarce in 2023
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Shortage of Ordinary Medicines Quickly Becoming U.S. National Health Emergency – Biden Administration Silent, Beach Life is Bliss – The Last Refuge (theconservativetreehouse.com)
I’m searching for OTC stuff to stock up. Just in case. Already noticing things missing.
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Gardening, Food Storage, General Health, and Related:
Growing Your Own Food and Why It Makes You So Happy (superseeds.com)
Now if I could actually get something to grow. Even in the raised bed I made, with good organic soil, I get squat.
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I got my Vitamin D level checked – top of the range. The doctor said he’d never seen someone with a level that high.
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
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Topical Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
The Prepper’s Canning Guide
Pickled Pantry
Fermented Vegetables
Hydroponics and Greenhouse Gardening: 3-in-1 Gardening Book to Grow Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit All-Year-Round
Hydroponics for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Hydroponic Gardening, Designing and Building Inexpensive DIY Hydroponic Systems…
The Aquaponics Guidebook: Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics Combining Aquaculture and Hydroponics
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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:
American Handgunner Close Dark Fast – American Handgunner
Excellent!!! A must-read.
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5 Carry Conditions – How Do You Carry Your Handgun? – Tactical Sh*t
I carry Condition 1.
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Concerning that what should be a good attitude – train, train, train – can be twisted by a court to backfire on you.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
Happy New Year!
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Palate cleansers:
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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here. Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.
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For the next five minutes, something like common sense just emerged from the bowels of the 11th Circuit Court of appeals. The case is Adams v. Sch. Bd. of St. Johns Cty, questioning whether the school board violated transgender student rights.
“[A] biological female who identifies as a boy” was prohibited “from using the boys’ bathroom at Allen D. Nease High School. The court ruled en banc that the United States has a long tradition of segregating certain spaces, such as bathrooms, on the basis of sex, without falling afoul of either the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment or Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in education.”
“Separating school bathrooms based on biological sex passes constitutional muster and comports with Title IX,” Judge Barbara Lagoa, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, wrote for the court. Four judges appointed by Democrats dissented from the opinion.
The school’s policy on bathroom use is based on biological sex, which includes transgender people.
“Both sides of the classification — biological males and biological females — include transgender students,” the ruling read.
No matter how you identify at school, you have either one set of biological parts or the other. That’s your bathroom, and expecting as much does not violate your rights.
I know, too simple.
The ruling also only applies to courts overseen by the 11th Circus, which includes Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, but it draws a line in the sand – though we remind you that it is still sand. At some point this will make its way up the food chain where we hope Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will recuse herself, seeing as she doesn’t know what a woman is because she is not a biologist. Not that not being something ever stopped her from ruling on anything else.
HT | Washington Examiner
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The biggest winner in New Hampshire politics in 2022? Without question GOVERNOR … oops, I am getting ahead of myself … CONGRESSMAN CHRIS PAPPAS, who is on the glide path to Governor in 2024.
Thanks to a big assist from Sun-King Sununu, who vetoed a proposed congressional map that would have made CD-1 more competitive for Pappas and who, in addition, did nothing of substance to help Pappas’ Republican opponent, Pappas cruised to another reelection victory. Now he is perfectly positioned to run for Governor in 2024, when the Sun-King abdicates and takes his “contributor’s” perch at MSNBC or CNN.
Who is going to stop Pappas from being elected Governor in 2024? Edelblut? Morse? You need to question your sanity if you really believe either Edelblut or Morse would be anything more than a sacrificial lamb. The gubernatorial election is not going to be a referendum on “Education Freedom Accounts,” while Morse and his crack consultants apparently believe that it is 1982, not 2022, and that Ronald Reagan is still President.
Pappas is going to be elected Governor of New Hampshire in 2024 and he will remain Governor until the Democrats decide it is time for him to step up to U.S. Senate, and then he will be Senator for life.
The only potential roadblock … now that Pappas has retained his seat in Congress … is that the Sun-King decides that he wants to make history by becoming the longest-serving (in the modern era) Governor of New Hampshire.
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Vermont’s mandated state minimum wage is rising today to 13.18 an hour. That’s, the new legislators know better what starting labor is worth to job creators rate. All in the name of whatever it is their supporters claim these wage mandates do.
New York State’s forced rate is rising as well to $14.20 an hour. Governor Kathy Hochul says, “fair, competitive wages are essential for helping families thrive and attracting top talent to the state.” I assume that’s what the idiot Dems in Vermont believe.
Government mandate wage is the opposite of a competitive one, and it has never been essential for helping families thrive or attracting people to your state. New York has been raising the wage for years, but people are fleeing in droves because, like all Democrat enclaves, it is an act of fraud.
These states have higher living costs driven by higher taxes which also increase the cost of goods and services. Forcing the wage rate up for unskilled labor does that as well. The net result is a loss in income and buying power. It can shower push-up union rates, which typically means dues increases which translates into more campaign buying power for Democrats.
If Democrats cared about thriving families and attracting talent, they’d cut taxes and regulations. Make it easier to start and run a small-to-medium-size business. That creates competition which drives performance innovations. Job creators need to find, train, and keep good talent and look for efficiencies in their process to compete. Those that succeed attract customers who can spend less and get more – making the dollars they have more valuable to everyone in the marketplace.
Government has no such incentive to do any of this and almost always does the opposite.
Mandating what an hour of starting labor is worth is a good example, especially on the current inflation track. It leads to fewer jobs, higher prices, less competition, and fewer choices.
The current labor market is a mess. And yes, many employers are already offering more to start because they can’t find people to work. So in one way, it appears meaningless. But New Hampshire’s minimum wage is 7.25 and has been for a very long time. New Hampshire has also had a higher average rate of starting pay, a stronger labor force, and a better economy – both before, during, and after the government closed businesses against their will.
So, thank you again, Vermont. Your bad decisions have, going on several decades, made New Hampshire a better place to start a business, work, shop, and live. Though to the last point, more than a few Vermonters have crossed the Connecticut river looking for a better deal and a little more economic liberty and took their voting habits with them.
To them, I’d like to say -this might be a great time to move back to Vermont. They have a higher minimum wage. And hey, take a few more Democrats with you when you go.
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Also, Blogline of the Day potential: “You have to get these crooks off the street one way or another,” the neighbor added to WXYZ. And the potential victim DID remove the perp from Society’s gene pool (gosh, a Darwin Award winner as well!).
Reformatted, emphasis mine:
Tow-truck driver with concealed carry license turns the tables on armed man who allegedly tried to rob him — and shoots suspect dead
A tow-truck driver with a concealed carry license turned the tables on an armed man who allegedly tried to rob him Monday in Detroit — and shot the suspect dead. The tow-truck driver was meeting with the suspect to buy a junk car around 9:35 a.m. in the area of 7 Mile and Kelly when he was ambushed from behind, sources told WJBK-TV, adding that the gun-toting suspect demanded everything the driver had on him.
The victim came prepared, however. The station said the tow-truck driver, who is a concealed pistol license holder, pulled out his own gun and fatally shot the suspect.
Detroit police told Fox News Digital they responded to an armed robbery and found one person shot. Investigators added to the cable network the wounded individual was taken to a hospital, where he later died. Fox News, citing Detroit police, said the Wayne County prosecutor will review the investigation’s findings, but there was no indication the tow-truck driver would face charges given that the situation appeared to be a case of self-defense.
Life is violent and all that the gun grabbers Civilian Disarmament Mob will accomplish is tilting the balance of power towards them that would take out the Civilian Disarmement Mob in a heartbeat if no one else was around to protect them. I would hope that the prosecutor isn’t a left-wing grabber themselves (hey, it’s Detroit, right? A Democrat run “political utopia” that hates guns if not solely in the hands of government.
To Keep And Bear Arms – we are just about at that tipping point where the majority of States will be Constitutional Carry ones. That is to say, we don’t have to “ask for permission” from Government to protect ourselves from n’er-do-wells like this perp now taking his long dirt nap.
(H/T: The Blaze)
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The biggest political winner of 2022? No contest … not even close … JOE BIDEN.
I can hear the howls from the bitter-clingers … NO! NO! NO! BIDEN IS A FAILURE! INCOMPETENT! Blah, blah, blah. Keep deluding yourselves, bitter-clingers. What you consider failure and incompetence is what Team-Biden considers success.
With a big assist from Mitch McConnell and the faux-Republicans in the Senate, Biden … or to be accurate, the cabal of Communists behind Biden … has had the most successful two years of any Presidency with respect to implementing his agenda … millions of illegals imported who will have children who will be American citizens and additional Democrat voters, a proxy war against Russia, the green new deal (they call it “infrastructure”), the most openly radical far-left federal judges imaginable, no midterm “red wave” … to name just a few:
At the end of a historic, productive session of Congress full of bipartisan results, I still have a few bills left to sign.
Take a guess how long it took me to sign a stack of 65 of them. pic.twitter.com/kP1Tc2fV4c
— President Biden (@POTUS) December 29, 2022
And remember none of this … NONE OF THIS … would have been possible without the complicity and in some cases open assistance of Mitch McConnell and his cronies.
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